Notices by muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social), page 2

Considering that YouTube has roughly 18 years of watch history recorded on my account, its recommendations are... shockingly bland and generic. Imagine what you could do with all this data and a bit of clever collaborative filtering 🤔

Nice, only took two hours to get merged, so this will be an option starting with Plasma 6.2!

I didn't like the window outlines in Plasma's desktop pager, so here's a proposal to make them optional:

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/2427

#plasma

"Go is to programing what Brutalism is to architecture.

It's the basic materials laid bare and exposed for what they are, striped down to the functionality and almost free from any decoration."

@tastapod

Rust is to programming what IKEA furniture is to home decor.

It’s designed with safety in mind, and once you get the hang of the instructions, it all fits together beautifully. But if you miss a step, you'll be staring at an Allen wrench, wondering where you went wrong.

@potpie

You know, it's a love/hate relationship at this point.

@ColinTheMathmo

Also: https://xkcd.com/1205/

"One day we'll leak entire data centers"

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/ex-twitter-dev-reminisces-about-finding-700-unused-nvidia-gpus-after-takeover-forgotten-cluster-was-powered-on-and-idle

I spent 8 hours automating a task that will easily save me several minutes over the next 10 years or so. MINUTES, I SAY!

Starting to regret throwing away boxes of old IDE cables now 🫣

For most people open source means "free as in beer", for me it's the only thing I'm actually willing to pay money for.

Why does everyone keep telling you to step outside your comfort zone?!

If you ask me, you go find the comfiest zone you can, then you just stay there and take a nap.

"YouTube confirms crackdown on VPN users accessing cheaper Premium plans"

No, listen, you just don't understand.

If Google pays taxes in a random country to cheat the system and save money, that's because "Globalism".

If you do it, you get banned though.

"Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration."

-- Stan Kelly-Bootle

If you think about it, the object of golf is to play the least amount of golf.

Serenity now!

Instagram, the photo sharing app for amateurs who absolutely hate photography.

"Cryptocurrencies are everything people don’t know about computers combined with everything they don’t understand about money."

I'm a firm believer in Inbox Zero.

Mr. Robot episodes of the 4th season appear to be named after the HTTP 4xx status codes 😂

4x01 Unauthorized
4x02 Payment Required
4x03 Forbidden
4x04 Not Found
4x05 Method Not Allowed
4x06 Not Acceptable
4x07 Proxy Authentication
4x08 Request Timeout
4x09 Conflict
4x10 Gone